Aizawa Masyu, Uchiyama Kan, Odawara Syunichi, Ishii Hironori, Sato Kenichi, Iinuma Toshio, Baba Masashi, Takamatsu Masashi, Koido Shigeo, Yamane Tateki, Ishii Takayuki, Matunaga Kazuhiro, Adachi Sei, Omura Mitsuhiro, Fujise Kiyotaka, Tajiri Hisao
Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Kashiwa Hospital, Japan.
Nihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi. 2008 Sep;105(9):1344-52.
We encountered a case of Cronkhite-Canada syndrome in which contrast radiologic examinations of the upper and lower digestive tract were performed immediately before and after the development of the clinical symptoms. These contrast radiologic images showed mainly mucosal coarseness and no polyposis of the stomach and colon. The endoscopy, performed 3 months later from the development of the clinical symptoms, revealed polyposis of the stomach and colon. So we recognized that the clinical symptoms developed before appearance of the polyposis of the digestive tract and the polyposis progressed rapidly.